Capture It vs Walkaway
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Capture It
Effortlessly capture thoughts, tasks, and notes using your voice. This app automatically organizes your spoken entries into categories and timelines, powered by on-device AI. Recall information with natural language questions and generate smart drafts for messages.
- Voice capture with automatic topic splitting
- AI classification into tasks, money, health, ideas
- Dual timeline for tasks and thoughts
- Time-aware scheduling
- Smart drafts for messages
- Shared rooms for collaboration
- On-device processing for privacy
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Capture It — Talk to Remember. Ask to Recall. Speak naturally. Say everything on your mind in one breath — tasks, expenses, health notes, ideas, messages. Capture It splits your words into separate entries, categorises each one, and places them on your timeline. Automatically. You never tag, sort, or organise anything. Powered entirely by Apple Intelligence. Everything runs on your device. Nothing is uploaded. Ever. What it does: Voice capture with automatic topic splitting — one recording becomes multiple organised entries Dual timeline — Coming Up for tasks, Capture Stream for thoughts AI classification into Tasks, Money, Health, People, Ideas, and Notes Time-aware — say "tomorrow at 3pm" or "next Friday" and due dates are set automatically People detection — mention someone by name and they're tracked across entries The Vault — every entry filed into categories, searchable, browsable Recall — ask questions about your own life and get instant answers Smart Drafts — say "email Sarah about the project" and get a ready-to-send draft with tone control (Casual, Business, Professional) Pinned Tasks — pin recurring tasks to specific days for routines and habits Shared Rooms — create a room, share a code, capture together with family or teams via iCloud Widget Room Settings — choose which rooms appear in your widget, toggle Work off on weekends Sunday Review — weekly checkpoint with pattern detection and cross-category insights Apple Watch — capture from your wrist, see upcoming tasks, swipe to complete Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets — today's tasks at a glance Siri Shortcuts — fully hands-free capture, works with AirPods Five dynamic themes that shift with time of day Companion Thoughts — related entries link together automatically Morning Briefing — daily summary of what's ahead One-time purchase. No subscription. No ads. Privacy first: All voice transcription, AI classification, and data storage happens on your device. No third-party services, no analytics, no tracking. Shared Rooms sync via your iCloud account only. Requires iOS 26 and Apple Intelligence for full features. Learn more: https://aroganthing.com/capture-it/ How to guide: https://aroganthing.com/capture-it-guide/
Walkaway
This app blocks distracting applications by requiring you to take a walk. Earn access to your chosen apps by meeting a step goal, or use hard blocks and schedules for uninterrupted focus. It's designed to be private and resist attempts to disable it.
- Walk to unlock apps with step goals
- Hard block for no early unlock
- Customizable schedules
- Commitment locks for extended blocking
- Resists early disabling
- Private by design, no account needed
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Walkaway is the app blocker that makes you move. Instead of a timer you can dismiss, it puts a real, physical walk between you and your most distracting apps. THE PROBLEM WITH WILLPOWER Feeds are engineered to be opened on autopilot. By the time you notice, an hour is gone. Walkaway interrupts the reflex with the one thing a feed can't compete with: your own body in motion. HOW IT WORKS 1. Pick the apps that pull you in (Instagram, TikTok, YouTube — anything). 2. Walkaway shields them using Apple's Screen Time technology. 3. Want in? Walk. Your steps are counted live, and when you hit your goal the app unlocks for a short session. Moving is the opposite of scrolling. Most of the time, by the end of the walk, you no longer want to open the app at all. WAYS TO BLOCK • Walk to unlock — earn your time with real steps, counted by your iPhone's motion sensor • Hard block — no early unlock, no exceptions • Schedules — block mornings, evenings, or any custom daily window • Commitment locks — seal a block for 3 hours up to 1 week; no way to switch it off early BUILT TO RESIST FUTURE-YOU Deleting the app or flipping blocking off in Settings is the loophole every blocker shares. Walkaway walks you through closing it: lock your settings with a Screen Time passcode you don't memorize, and the block actually sticks. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no sign-up • Step counting happens on-device • Apple's Screen Time framework means Walkaway never sees which apps you use or what you do in them • Nothing leaves your iPhone A 1-MINUTE SCROLL CHECK Four quick questions show how much of your scrolling runs on autopilot — then Walkaway sets the right walking goal for you. WHO IT'S FOR • Doomscrollers who lose hours without deciding to • Students and deep workers protecting their focus • Anyone trying a digital detox who wants to move more instead of scrolling Stop negotiating with the feed. Put your shoes on and take your time back — one walk at a time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Walkaway at Free against Capture It's $1.99. Walkaway also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). Capture It's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Walkaway is free to download; Capture It costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Capture It against 5.0 for Walkaway. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | Capture It | Walkaway |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 83 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | adam rogan | ANIELLO DI POLITO |
In-app purchases
Capture It
No in-app purchases
Walkaway
No in-app purchases









